We are running Wildfire 4.0, build M190 with Intralink. Since purchasing SolidWorks and EPDM we have been migrating all our ProE data to EPDM in order to have one database for both CAD systems. The ProE files are exported out of an Intralink workspace to a folder, copied and pasted into a folder in the vault and then checked in. The problem is that when checking in and changing states for drawings we end of with a MASSSIVE list of references due to the fact the drawings are pointing to a common fornat in a read only folder. For our large assemblies this file list has been as large as 50k individual files. Our VAR worked on it for a while and finally said that Enterprise was working correctly and the it was a ProE thing.

Has anyone been through this process before and run across this problem? I find it hard to believe that we are the first.

I've never worked with ProE files in an EPDM vault, but if the common format causes references to be created across many files, then EPDM is probably working correctly according to the way it interprets references.

One option you can consider is to turn off the features that cause EPDM to act on files en masse based on their references. Barring that, you'll probably need some kind of API programming.

Just noticed this post. Maybe have a look in Administration > File Types and open the file type frm properties. I will bet you have file extensions listed in the 'This file type can have drawing nodes'

Thanks! You put me on the track to the solution. The frm properties had drw listed in the box "This file type can have drawing nodes...". Once I removed the drw from the box, all the extra references do not appear. I had looked at this box before but didn't make the connection. My VAR was unable to solve it too.